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Anna Mehler Paperny

@mehlerpaperny.bsky.social

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Reuters reporter in Toronto; Author, Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person; Nosy questions, mostly. [email protected] or [email protected]

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · Mar 10

Canada's mass incarceration of Indigenous people is worsening and an insidious driver is the stickiness of Canada's carceral system - when people should get a shot at freedom, but often don't. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Despite Trudeau promises, more Indigenous people being jailed in Canada

Like a growing number of formerly incarcerated Indigenous people, Marvin Starblanket's life is still governed by Correctional Service Canada rules.

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 11h

Please put one on hold for us.

Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 12h

What's the return policy?

Shaggy auburn pupster sits half on leaf-strewn pavement, half on leaf-strewn dirt.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 14h

Climate tipping points are being crossed, scientists warn ahead of COP30 reut.rs/4nTrk1G

Climate tipping points are being crossed, scientists warn ahead of COP30

Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected with the world’s coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists on Monday described as the first “tipping point” in climate-driven ecosystem collapse.

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 14h

Canadian authorities have been warning Canadians for the past few months to have papers on them when in the US.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 16h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 15h

WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 14h

Seriously? Will use this for next time - thank you!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h

Hamas released the last remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza on Monday. Here’s what we know about them: nyti.ms/4n5uDSh

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 16h

I have two hours before my blood donation appointment. Any advice for last-minute iron-loading?

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17h

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners and detainees return home

Nearly 2,000 prisoners and detainees – including about 1,700 people seized from Gaza and held without charge – set free from Israeli jails

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Reuters Pictures @pictures.reuters.com · 18h

In photos: Freed hostages return to Israel reut.rs/4h62jh4

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 18h

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Live Updates: Hostages and Palestinian Prisoners Are Freed as Trump Hails ‘Historic Dawn’ in Mideast

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 18h

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The bleak reality for Palestinians returning home after the Israel-Gaza ceasefire

Tens of thousands of Palestinians are taking the long march home to north Gaza, only to find ash and ruins, report Nedal Hamdouna and Bel Trew

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Dylan Robertson @withfilesfrom.bsky.social · 1d

Senator Amina Gerba was sterilized without her consent at a Montreal hospital. @amy61.bsky.social hopes her story can advance a broader reckoning on systemic racism.

"I didn't want to talk about it at all. But it was too hard to keep quiet," she says. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/senat...

Senator says she was never told her 2005 surgery would leave her sterile

OTTAWA - A Quebec senator says she was never told by her doctor that a surgical procedure she went through in 2005 would render her unable to have children, and

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 1d

By this logic I should not be alive. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o... (much of the time I happen to agree!)

Opinion | Who Deserves an Organ? The Dilemma of Severe Mental Illness.

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 1d

This makes sense because Ontario has a surfeit of doctors.

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 2d

Ontario limiting first-round applications for residency positions from international medical graduates to only those who completed at least two years of high school in the province, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #MedEd #IMGs

Ontario will apply new limits on residency applications from international medical graduates

Graduates who did not attend an Ontario high school must wait until the second round of applications

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 1d

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‘Gateway to hell’: young reporter’s harrowing two years in besieged Gaza

Malak A Tantesh’s grim experience of living with perpetual fear and uncertainty amid Israel’s war after 2023 Hamas attack

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 2d

Have you met your neck-scratch quota today?

Shaggy auburn pupster lies on floor, head up, looking skeptical

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🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 2d

Canadian friends! If you're having turkey this weekend, let me set you up for the days that follow 👇

🎃 Iva Cheung 🍗 @ivacheung.com · 13d

I made a li'l cookbook! *After the Feast* suggests ways to use up leftovers from your big turkey dinners.

The PDF is FREE. If you buy a print copy, $2 will support food security initiatives through the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre.

Please spread the word! 🍗

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After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung

After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 2d

They're good! Not as juicy as I'd like but sweet, firm flesh.

Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 2d

important update

Basket of yellow patches labelled "Ontario"

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 3d

Driver charged in hit-and-run death that sent chill through Prince George cycling community
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Driver charged in hit-and-run death of cyclist in Prince George | CBC News

Thomas Leslie Phillips is charged with impaired driving causing death, among other offences, for a hit-and-run that left one cyclist dead and another injured during a training session for a charity bi...

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 3d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 3d

In all seriousness, if you're suffering know you are seen and deserve wellness and a society that does not act in that vein needs fixing.

Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 3d

It's World Mental Health Day, which means it's a great time to ask any politician posting about this what they're doing to guarantee public coverage of pharmacotherapy and non-MD-provided psychotherapy.

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 3d

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Israeli Military Says Cease-Fire Is in Effect in Gaza